Issues and challenges related to drinking water, climate change and its impact on water bodies, new water purification technologies will be some of the main discussions of the XII Puerto Rican Congress of Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Sciences that will be held March 4-6 at the Metropolitan Campus of the Inter American University.
Intellectual property rights experts from the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Patents and Trademark Office will be in Puerto Rico on Feb. 25 to offer information on how local businesses can protect their intellectual property rights when they are exporting their product and services to the U.S. mainland and overseas markets.
The Puerto Rico Planning Board informed that at the end of 2014 it had approved 52 location consultations, representing a future investment of $3 billion and the potential to create 25,000 jobs.